Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers · California

Homeboy Recycling

Los Angeles, CA · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Homeboy Recycling runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Homeboy Recycling: 2.9 TCR = 132% of Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Homeboy Recycling safety composite

Homeboy Recycling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Homeboy Recycling held a steady TCR band

Homeboy Recycling's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.5 in 2019 to 4.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 132% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #40/91
  • PHOTO Sharon
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sharon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Homeboy Recycling in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Homeboy Recycling averages 2.9 TCR (132% of the Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Homeboy Recycling TCR series: 2019=4.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Homeboy Recycling falls in its industry

1,126 Plastics scrap merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 91 Plastics scrap merchant wholes employers in California.

Homeboy Recycling (27 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Homeboy Recycling
Homeboy Recycling (27 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Homeboy Recycling has fewer employees than the Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 4.2 4.2 1 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · CA · Los Angeles

1,126 Plastics scrap merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sharon 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Line Polymers--Clarion 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regency Technologies - Durham 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JI&M Metal Processors 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Burgess Norton Mfg. Co., Inc. (Plant 1) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fallon, NV 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sewell Infiniti Dallas 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR BPI 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Varex Imaging, N.Charleston 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri County Farmers Association - Brinkley 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anna Ready Mix Plant 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Integrated Builders, Inc. 27 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.